monday mosaic a weekly literary forum 25th oct

dear friends! hello! this monday on 25th oct monday mosaic as usual started of with poetry recital by Dr.P.K.Jayalakshmi, Asst Professor, St.Josephs college for women. she is  not only a professor in hindi but also a well known writer in telugu. she read out the beautiful and sensitive poems of Suryakanth Tripathi Nirala. the poems were bhikshuk, jaga phir ek baar, two poems which gave the audience the real feel of Niralas uniquenes as a poet. Dr. D.V.Suryarao a Professor in Telugu in BVK college vizag, introduced a story of late Palagummi Padmaraju, which won the second prize in the world stories competetion of the HeraldTribune and brought Telugu literature pride. it was a story at present added in the syllsbus of the degree students. When some people objected the story as it states the basic instinct of man, Surya Rao being the member of the selection committee. supported and successfully retained it by explaining the others the psychological implication of the story. So in a way he shared with his experiences along with sharing the story. The story is about a man , who lives as a strict disciplinarian, one night gets stuck up in a storm in an unknown small railway station. none to help him except the lady whom he does not care for before who is a beggar woman. she protects him from his fear by caressing him like a mother. then the mind of the man changes but to find the lady dead under the collapsed roof of the booking clerk's room the next morning. in her hands were his purse and some money from the counter the clerk left. Rao takes away the money from her hands and keeps back in the counter. and he takes awy the money in his purse from her hands and leaves only his card in her hand. HE does this because for all the solace she had given him the night before he never wanted any one to think of her as a thief. this is a great psychological widely applaused by the world and translated to many foreign languages too. The next event as it always an Eminent writer, artiste Sri Dwivedula Somanatha Sastry who in his eighties with all zeal and zest took all the trouble to come and share the experiences of his life, that turned him a writer, and an eminent artiste by taking coaching from a great artiste Antyakula PydiRaju  . he also told the audience how he shared his views with eminent writers like Chaso and SriSri and so on. The audience were delighted to see the album of his pictures. The guest of the evening was the well noted translator whom we all take pride in is Santosh Alex who has translated many malayalam writers to hindi and vice versa, and won many awards for his published works at national level.Responding being the guest was very much pleased with the way the peogramme was organised and promised his participation too in the activities of Monday Mosaic. the meeting was presided by the famous writer in telugu, and a prestigious translator for the central sahithya academi, and also the permanent president of our Mosaic literary forum. he suggested that if the poems to be read from other languages are brought in translation too and read it would be enjoyable to the audience and as well a good exercise for the person presenting the poems and it can be further sent to some magazine to be published. Poet, translator, Ramateeertha Secretary Mosaic welcomed and introduced the guests on the dias. the program was conclude with a joyous and heartfelt vote of thanks by Jagaddhatri, Joint secretary Mosaic....the audience left the hall with a feel of happiness of taking along with them some valuable information and having had a literary feast....thank u until next monday so long dear friends....jagaddhatri